Visit : Museum /discovery
COMPUTER SCIENCE MUSEUM - UNISYS BELGIUM "COLLECTION JACQUES LAFFUT"
- Address:
Avenue du Bourget 20
1130 Brussels (HAREN) - MAPS: Google Maps
- Tel.: +32 (0) 2 728 05 27
- Fax: +32 (0) 2 728 07 50
- Email : computermuseum@be.unisys.com
The museum's numerous exhibits include the Burroughs machine : the first calculator/printing machine (weighing 37 kilos !), invented in 1886 by William Seward Burroughs; the first "portable" calculator, dating from the 1920's (7-8 kilos !); the 1921 "Moon Hopkins", the first adding machine to use direct multiplication - calculators at that time had used repeated addition without actually multiplying the sums. Chronological track about the history of the electronic memory.
Opening periods:
- All year round 2010
Visit type: Museum /discovery
Comment:
Open by appointment only (tel.: 02/728 05 27).
Guided tours only, groups of 15 persons max.
Closed during the weekend.
Streetcar : 55 / Bus : 45, 59, 63, 65, 67, 68.
Extra information:
Free of charge.
Learn more about this:
We recommend you to visit our partners' pages
- SOLVAY ESTATE - CASTLE OF LA HULPE
- BRUXELLES EN SCENE (BRUSSELS ON STAGE)
- WELLINGTON MUSEUM
- ABBEY OF VILLERS-LA-VILLE
- VOIR ET DIRE BRUXELLES





opt-e.mathez.jpg)


